A pinecone unties itself from the shoreand vanishes into a water wheel

Self-righteous families of fliesalight on the skeleton of a moose

A pane of glass warms like a viperunder the opaque sun

LISHA RUAN is a Computer Science major and writer at Princeton University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Jersey Devil Press, By&By Poetry, and Sweet Tree Review. In her free time, she likes learning languages and playing Avalon. She grew up in Rockville, Maryland.